Do leftist policies?
You know, abortion ‘right’, ‘right to die’, forcing businesses to provide services against their religious beliefs (Little Sisters of the Poor), ‘gender therapy’ and surgical procedures/pills for children, ‘gay marriage’? Are those all paralleling Church teachings?
With regard to “Rightist’ i.e. republican policies, do the policies themselves oppose Catholic teaching? Truly? Or are they just different ways to offer help?
With regard to the last 55 years or so since the War on Poverty, much of the Democratic Party platforms, with the exception of the sexual (i.e. abortion, gay marriage, gender ideology) have been in place and have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Out of wedlock pregnancies have soared along with abortions. Fatherless families have skyrocketed. The poor get poorer and the crime rates jump. Despite countless ‘Educational’ packages the SAT scores nosedive further each year, and despite STEM the dropout rates rise, and to top all, our students cannot communicate. Debacles like ‘whole language’ have led to the generation between ages 20-45 being on the whole functionally illiterate as they cannot distinguish between the ‘letter pattern’ of word, world, and would! Most HONORS HISTORY students in grade 12 cannot tell you who fought against us in the Revolutionary War, come within 50 years of the dates of the US Civil war, find a given country on a world map, and the few ‘factoids’ they retain are either feminist trivia meant to demonize “white European history’ or other revisionist claptrap and Dan Brown “history’.
The Democratic Party platform planks keep throwing money at programs which simply DO.NOT.WORK.
